Lara Kiswani

Lara Kiswani is the Executive Director of Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), serving poor and working class Arabs and Muslims across the San Francisco Bay Area, and organizing to overturn racism, forced migration, and militarism.

Contributions from Lara Kiswani

Gaza and US Politics in the Shadow of MAGA

With cohost Maya Schenwar

The war on Gaza raises the urgency of international solidarity and compounds the challenges of fighting the white supremacist, authoritarian Right at home. Join Convergence for a livestream discussion Monday, Dec. 11 at 8pm ET/ 7pm CT/ 5pm PT to deepen our understanding and feed our strategy.

Large group of teens holding signs that read "I support Arab youth"

Arts and Culture

Fight for Ethnic Studies Moves to K-12 Classrooms

Artnelson Concordia , Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales , Anita Fernández , Brian Lozenski , Carlos EC Hagedorn , Jody Sokolower , Lara Kiswani , Lisa Covington and Valerie A. Martínez

Teachers have formed the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies to defend and spread education that centers BIPOC knowledge, experiences and narratives in service of collective liberation.

Photo of Palestinians marching through the ruins of the village of Al-Lujjan, destroyed in the Nakba of 1948. Women lead the march carrying Palestinian flags.

Palestine Rises Up: “Our Hope Is Stronger than Despair”

Lara Kiswani

“The colonization of Palestine is not permanent, it is not guaranteed,” writes Lara Kiswani: Resistance, solidarity and hope overflow.

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Contributions from Lara Kiswani